Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
SS Keewatin
Passenger liner
History
SS Keewatin is a passenger liner which once travelled between Port Arthur/Fort William (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior and Port McNicoll on Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) in Ontario, Canada. She carried passengers between these ports for the Canadian Pacific Railway's Great Lakes steamship service. Keewatin also carried packaged freight goods for the railway at these ports.
Keewatin is the largest of the remaining Edwardian era passenger steamers remaining in the world, along with SS Nomadic, and the lake steamer TSS Earnslaw (1913), currently still operational in New Zealand.
Text: Wikipedia — SS Keewatin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Further Reading
Ship Facts & Specifications
Tonnage
3,856 GRT
Length
102.6 m pp
Beam
13.3 m
Draught
23 ft 7 in
Speed
16 knots max
Passengers
288
Crew
86
Builder
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland
Launched
6 July 1907
Maiden voyage
14 September 1907
In service
7 October 1908
Out of service
29 November 1965
Owner
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Port of registry
Montreal
Propulsion
Quadruple expansion steam engine
Status
Museum ship
